The paper estimates the lower bound for market concentration taking as reference the framework advanced by Sutton (1991 … concentration lower bound towards zero in exogenous sunk costs industries in line with previous empirical evidence for developed … technological effort in that emerging economy. -- Concentration ; market size …

The paper estimates the lower bound for market concentration taking as reference the framework advanced by Sutton (1991 … concentration lower bound towards zero in exogenous sunk cost industries in line with previous empirical evidence for developed …

liquidity on the dispersion and mean of industry productivity distributions, as well as on industry concentration measures using … associated with a decline in industry concentration measures. This is consistent with predictions from the standard industry … alternative measures of dispersion and concentration, and alternative methods of estimating total factor productivity …

market definition such as "acute in-patient care" averages out severe discrepancies that become visible when concentration is … only impact on the level of concentration, while the correlation remains high. Our results underline the need for more …

market definition such as “acute in-patient care” averages out severe discrepancies that become visible when concentration is … only impact on the level of concentration, while the correlation remains high. Our results underline the need for more …

The South African economy is generally understood to be characterised by high levels of product market concentration … firm-level panel data. I present new evidence on South African markups, industrial concentration, and the firm … conclusions about industrial concentration using cross-industry study, and that high and growing concentration across the South …

This paper uses new data to reexamine trends in concentration in U.S. markets from 1994 to 2019. The paper's main … contribution is to construct concentration measures that reflect narrowly defined consumption-based product markets, as would be … higher than previous results. Also in contrast with the previous literature, we find that product market concentration has …

This paper aims to analyze the degree of concentration of loans allocated to agricultural and livestock activities in …

concentration indexes for 4-digit manufacturing sectors. We find both significant markups and significant concentration across most … sectors. We compare computed markups and concentration with early estimates in South Africa and with other international … benchmark countries. We then examine the market structure based on the concentration, firms' size, and entry and exit dynamics …

A rapidly growing literature has shown that market concentration among domestic firms has increased in the United … measures of concentration, once adjusted for sales by foreign exporters, actually stayed constant between 1992 and 2012. We … reconcile these findings by linking part of the increase in domestic concentration to import competition. Although concentration …